About
Jeremy Paden
Born in Milan, Italy, Jeremy was raised in various southern states of the United States of America, in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic. On his mother's side he is of Puerto Rican descent. He completed his PhD in Spanish at Emory University and is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. He is also on faculty at Spalding University's Low-Residency MFA. He is the author of various books of poetry in English and Spanish and has translated Latin American, Spanish, and American poets into both English and Spanish.
His classes at Transylvania University include everything from beginning Spanish to courses on Don Quijote, Pablo Neruda, Latin American Poetry, and Latin American Philosophy. At Spalding University he teaches and mentors in Literary Translation and Poetry.
He is a member of the Affrilachian Poets and received an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council in 2019.
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Under the Ocelot Sun/Bajo el sol del ocelot co-won the 2020 Campoy-Ada Prize for Illustrated Book with Special Cultural Content.
His poems and translations have appeared in many journals and a number of anthologies, including: Asymptote Journal, Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, California Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Cortland Review, Drunken Boat, Hampden-Sydney Review, Louisville Review, Rattle, Words Without Borders, and others.
